Dwarves
The International Astronomical Union "demoted" Pluto from planet status to this status, sparking outrage on Pluto's behalf.
What is a dwarf planet?
"Be our guest" & know French novelist Madame Leprince de Beaumont wrote a version of this often adapted fairy tale.
What is Beauty and the Beast?
Unlike Space Marines, these soldiers are generally ordinary humans equipped with mass-produced weapons and sent to war in enormous numbers.
Besides being the TV "Science Guy", he also calls himself an "engineer, comedian, author and inventor."
Who is Bill Nye?
One of the 3 large empires of 19th century Eastern Europe was this "Sick Man."
What is the Ottoman Empire?
The dwarves in this game are miners with a battlecry of "rock and stone!"
What is Deep Rock Galactic?
Also known for his detective fiction, French author Gaston Leroux wrote this 1910 "operatic" work.
What is The Phantom of the Opera?
Also known as The Great Devourer, this alien race's sole purpose is the consumption of all forms of genetic and biological material.
Who are the Tyranids?
If you're an architect or engineer, there's always room on this inclined table for your T-square.
What is a drafting table?
Associated with this large Romanian region, Vlad the Impaler was actually from neighboring Walachia.
What is Transylvania?
Daily Double
This name of a Disney dwarf means shy.
One of the most popular novels among soldiers on both sides in the U.S. Civil War was this 1862 Victor Hugo novel.
What is Les Misérables?
Orks reproduce in the same manner as fungi by releasing this.
What are spores?
A software engineer started this, initially an email service, & wanted to call it "sf-events" but instead named it after himself.
What is Craigslist?
This Mongol army overran Eastern Europe in the 13th century.
What is The Golden Horde?
The dwarf one of these is one of the smallest members of the kangaroo family.
What are wallabies?
This Voltaire hero trades philosophy for fertilizer, deciding the key to happiness is simply to "cultivate our garden."
Who is Candide?
This Chaos God represents decay, disease, entropy, and the inevitability of death.
Who is Nurgle?
Dramatically improving sanitation, engineer Joseph Bazalgette designed & built a network of these under London.
What are sewers?
In 1927 a Paris jury acquitted a man of murder, agreeing it was justifiable vengeance for these massacres of Jews in Eastern Europe.
What are the pogroms?
In a war against the Orcs, the dwarf Thorin, son of Thráin, earned this nickname.
What is Oakenshield?
In 1950 Ionesco's "The Bald Soprano" helped launch what is now known as the "Theatre of" this.
What is the Absurd?
The Necrons were once members of this organic species before transferring their consciousness into metal bodies.
Who are the Necrontyr?
The Moylan arrow, named for the Ford engineer whose idea it was, is that little triangle on your dashboard that tells you this.
What is which side the gas tank is on?
A blight-resistant purple one of these from Eastern Europe may be a boon to farmers.
What are potatoes?